nanopolitics handbook

the nanopolitics group

How to think politics with and through the body?

The invention of new modes of sensibility is vital to enriching and sustaining political engagements, labours and lives in the situated contexts of urban collectivity. The nanopolitics handbook investigates the neoliberal city and workplace, the politics of crisis and austerity, precarious lives and modes of collaboration – through bodies and their encounters.  Starting from the exploration of what bodies can do – with curiosity, courage and care – nanopolitics is a proposal for producing new collective subjectivations.

Based on the experiments and experiences of the nanopolitics group, this book proposes exercises, concepts and ideas as little maps and machines for action. Drawing on social movements, grassroots organizing, dance, theatre and bodywork, the reflections and practices here present strategies for navigating and reconfiguring the playing field of ‘nanopolitics’, activating its entanglement with the major politics of our time. 

Texts and exercises by: the nanopolitics group, esquizo-barcelona, David Vercauteren, Camila Mello and Fabiane Borges, Nelly Alfandari, Jorge Goia, Lottie Child, Carla Bottiglieri, Gabriella Alberti, Paolo Plotegher, Davyd Bodoun, Emma Dowling, Mara Ferreri, Manuela Zechner, Bue Rübner Hansen, Amit Rai, Anja Kanngieser, Lisa Burger, Irina Burger and Signe Lupnov.

The inspiring Nanopolitics Handbook insists that a post-capitalist political movement will always be physical, affective, and will demand a sensual retraining in making transition happen. More than a polemic, it is a workbook for the future too. – Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism

In the face of extreme disavowals or affirmations of the body, and in a capitalist context that depletes our body’s capacities to hold up, the Nanopolitics Handbook proposes new ways of relating and being together. It inspires us to reinvent a body that has the force to live up to its own fragility, be it individual or collective. – Peter Pál Pelbart

280 pages, 5.5 x 8.5

US: $26 / UK: £20

ISBN 978-1-57027-268-4

Release date Fall 2013

Released by Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe / Brooklyn / Port Watson

Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life.

Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia

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